We show that the exposure to war-related violence increases the quantity of children temporarily, with permanent … experienced a ten year long civil conflict of varying intensity. We exploit that villages affected by the conflict had the same … trend in fertility as non-affected villages prior to the onset of conflict and employ a difference-in-differences estimator …

breakdown of trust, plunging a society into a vicious cycle of recurrent conflicts (a war trap). The incidence of conflict can …We construct a dynamic theory of civil conflict hinging on inter-ethnic trust and trade. The model economy is … beliefs on the average propensity to trade of the other group. Since confict disrupts trade, the onset of a conflict signals …

the probability of military conflict and for the simultaneous determination of trade and peace. …We investigate the effect of trade integration on interstate military conflict. Our empirical analysis, based on a … interdependence significantly promotes peace. It also suggests that the peace-promotion effect of bilateral trade integration is …

We reconsider the relationship between oil and conflict, focusing on the location of oil resources. In a panel of 132 … countries over the period 1962-2009, we show that oil windfalls increase the probability of conflict in onshore-rich countries …, while they decrease this probability in offshore-rich countries. We use a simple model of conflict to illustrate how these …

Social conflict pervades human society and fulfils a number of essential functions in its development and … transformation, including the creation of new norms and institutions. The Historical Social Conflict Database (HiSCoD) is an ongoing … project designed to provide to scholars and society at large with a set of resources for analysing social conflict from the …

) their payoffs from a peaceful settlement are larger than their expected payoffs from a default to war, and (2) their … defending and counterattacking, the divisibility of the contested territory, the possibility of recurring war, the depreciation … ; fortifications ; counterattacks ; divisibility ; recurring war ; depreciation …

and county fixed effects and instrumental variables. We also document that the post-war effects of ethnic violence depend …We study the effect of civil conflict on social capital, focusing on the experience of Uganda during the last decade … a number of control variables, alternative measures of violence, and different statistical techniques involving ethnic …

unfortified border; • a fortified but peaceful border; and • armed conflict. The analysis shows that the possibility of a credible … technology, can cause a peaceful settlement to break down, resulting in an armed conflict that in turn can provide the basis for …

strong impact on political violence. We provide further evidence to prove that BBC radio played an important role in …